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Platform Engineering
11 entries tagged “Platform Engineering”
- Shadow AI Is an Operating Problem, Not a Ban
· 4 min
Banning AI tools removes your visibility, not the tools. Make the governed path the fast path and pull usage into the control plane.
governance
ai
security
The New Talent Stack: Product, Platform, and Applied AI Must Work as One System
· 3 min
AI organizations create leverage when product, platform, and applied AI are designed as one operating system instead of three kingdoms.
teams
ai
platform-engineering
Why Most AI Platform Teams Become the New Bottleneck
Canon post —
· 3 min
AI platform teams fail when they centralize decisions instead of capabilities. The queue is the bug.
platform-engineering
ai
teams
AI Agent Operations and the Networking Bottleneck: Why AI Agents Fail on Legacy Infrastructure
· 7 min
Most AI agent failures are infrastructure failures, not model failures. Legacy networking and missing circuit breakers are the real reliability bottleneck.
agents
infrastructure
security
Platform Engineering: DevOps Grew Up
· 4 min
Platform engineering is what happens when you realize 'you build it, you run it' does not scale past a handful of teams.
platform-engineering
devops
developer-experience
Most Platform Teams Are Building the Wrong Thing
· 6 min
Most platform teams build tools nobody asked for while developers wait in ticket queues. Lessons from maturity assessments at a dozen enterprises.
platform-engineering
devops
developer-experience
Developer Portals: The Thing Nobody Wants to Build But Everyone Needs
· 5 min
What I learned helping large telecoms build internal developer portals, and why the service catalog is the only part that actually matters on day one.
platform-engineering
developer-experience
Platform Engineering Is Just DevOps With a Rebrand
· 3 min
The industry loves renaming things. Platform engineering is DevOps done properly — and most companies still won't do it right.
platform-engineering
devops
infrastructure
Internal Platforms vs. Ad-Hoc Tooling: Which Developer Experience Actually Wins
· 6 min
Purpose-built internal platforms versus the organic tooling teams build for themselves -- and when each approach actually delivers.
developer-experience
platform-engineering
devops
Your Internal Platform Is Probably a Liability
· 3 min
Most internal developer platforms fail because nobody treated them like a product. Lessons from building (and scrapping) platform tooling at three startups.
platform-engineering
devops
developer-experience
What I Learned Building Our Platform Team This Year
· 5 min
Reflections on standing up the fintech startup's platform team in 2017 — what worked, what didn't, and why treating infra like a product changed everything.
platform-engineering
teams
engineering